Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Hardly any Canadian towns see harsher January nights than Brokenhead
High summer brings afternoon highs near 25.2°C. Precipitation peaks in June and eases off in February. Counting rain and snow together, it is drier than 68% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 88 times a year.
Borrowed figures: Brokenhead has no normals station, so these come from Pinawa, 44 km east.
A year in Brokenhead at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Brokenhead’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Brokenhead feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 194 frosts and 98 warm days a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 54 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 571 mm a year
4th wettest of 189 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 126 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in December (about 27 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 45 km away (Pinawa records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Brokenhead
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. That means homes here need more heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Brokenhead’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul and Aug, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Roughly 70 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 28 days a year.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Brokenhead’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Pinawa
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Pinawa are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 44 km east |
| Station altitude | 267 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 45 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.4°C |
| Average wind | 8.7 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 45 km |
How Brokenhead compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Manitoba.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Brokenhead whose figures come from another normals location.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brokenhead Pinawa | 25.2°C | −21.7°C | 571 mm |
| Beausejour 10 km · Pinawa | 25.2°C about the same | −21.7°C about the same | 571 mm |
| St. Clements 16 km · Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) | 25.8°C 0.6°C warmer | −21.2°C 0.5°C milder | 519 mm |
Brokenhead weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −10.7°C | −21.7°C | −16.2°C | 30 mm | 25 cm |
| February | −7.9°C | −20.7°C | −14.3°C | 14 mm | 12 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −12.5°C | −6.2°C | 28 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 9.4°C | −3.5°C | 3.0°C | 30 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 16.6°C | 3.6°C | 10.1°C | 71 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 22.1°C | 10.0°C | 16.1°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.2°C | 12.8°C | 19.0°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.2°C | 11.6°C | 17.9°C | 67 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.8°C | 7.0°C | 12.9°C | 63 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.9°C | 0.5°C | 5.3°C | 39 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 0.0°C | −8.1°C | −4.1°C | 24 mm | 21 cm |
| December | −7.8°C | −17.0°C | −12.4°C | 25 mm | 27 cm |
| Year | 8.3°C | −3.2°C | 2.6°C | 571 mm | 126 cm |
Two years in three, February’s average lands within 4.0°C of normal, against the steadier July
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than March, between −40.5°C (2003) and 24.6°C (2012).
Where Brokenhead’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Pinawa (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Brokenhead’s climate
How warm does Brokenhead get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 25.2°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Brokenhead get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −21.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Brokenhead get?
A normal year brings 571 mm, snow included as water: June is wettest at 99 mm, February driest at 14 mm.
Are these figures for Brokenhead itself?
Only indirectly: the readings are made at Pinawa, outside Brokenhead.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Brokenhead →
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).